A direct lightning strike can melt soldered joints inside the antenna, and can even vaporize signal wire inside the cable. I doubt there was much damage to the wire because of the EMP arrestor, but the connectors might need to be detached and reattached if they are the soldered type.
Those EMP arrestors are not intended to save you from a direct strike, but rather a strike a hundred yards away. Unless you're on top of a building such as the Empire State, direct strikes are rare. Just consider yourself lucky and perhaps replace the UPS even if it seems OK. -- Daniel << When truth is outlawed; only outlaws will tell the truth. >> - RLiegh On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, M. Osten wrote: ]I have a client site that has several point to point wireless links. A ]week ago, one of the buildings took a direct lightning strike that took ]out the alarm system, a few PC's, as well as the Cisco 340 bridge that ]was in the building. ] ]The bridge was protected by a UPS (that is still functional, and a EMP ]arrestor on the cable from the directional antenna.), however it still ]fried. ] ]I've replaced the 340 with a 350 and removed the arrestor, but am unable ]to get any sort of link with the other building (clear line of sight a ]block away). Is there any chance that lightning could take out the ]antenna and cable as well? ] -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
